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🚨Our New Report: Human Security in a ‘War-Ready’ UK
Rethinking Security’s new report summarises three 2026 roundtable discussions on the impact of last year's SDR and National Security Strategy on human security across the UK.
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What impact have last year's SDR & National Security Strategy had on ordinary people and the UK's least secure?
Jo Frew outlines views from our latest roundtable series & what participants collectively see as ways forward for protecting human security.
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Military leaders pre-empting political leaders - softening the ground, so to speak - about 'sacrifices' necessary to bolster militarism.
Be prepared for more taxes, less social benefits and - perhaps - the idea that war is inevitable, not preventable.
🇬🇧 Are Britons ready for the sacrifices needed to strengthen national security?
Speaking to soldiers in Catterick Garrison the head of the British Army warns Britons must face a “frank conversation” about the sacrifices needed for defence and security🔗forcesnews.com/services/army…
Frankly, there is some deeply disturbing rhetoric coming out of British top brass this week about 'consenting to sacrifices' and 'take the fight to the enemy'.
It seems they are moving to take control of the political 'conversation' on our security, and that is not a good thing.
🇬🇧 Are Britons ready for the sacrifices needed to strengthen national security?
Speaking to soldiers in Catterick Garrison the head of the British Army warns Britons must face a “frank conversation” about the sacrifices needed for defence and security🔗forcesnews.com/services/army…
Exhibit B: The CDS's bizarre tweet from yesterday, attempting to link an annual infantry exercise in mid-Wales to a national, all-of-society responsibility to prepare for and respond to unspecified 'challenges ahead'.
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New Report: Human Security in a ‘War-Ready’ UK by the team at @RethinkingSecu1
The report summarises three roundtable discussions with people working across a range of human security, peace and climate issues.
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Great new report out today from @NEUnion: The Security We Choose, making the case for rethinking security and protecting spending on what actually makes people secure, in the UK and globally.
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The British military wastes billions every year sustaining overseas operations. We don’t need more military spending. We need a new foreign policy.
Our latest report @TransitionSec estimates the costs of Britain’s global military strategy and its overseas deployments.
For all its talk of a 'national conversation' on security & defence, the gov't is clearly not going to have one that involves listening to people.
So we've been kicking off our own conversations, and we hope you'll join this one. TONIGHT 6pm.
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Join us on Wednesday at 6pm for the first in our new webinar series, on how the 'war-ready' 'national security' discourse is constricting our political space and distorting our political rights.
🚨Our next webinar:
Increasingly, attempts to expose UK complicity in conflicts & to challenge security, foreign & climate policy have been suppressed by new laws & police powers. Why is this happening & who or what is being sidelined in result?
Register: rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/we…
Top Ten (non-UN) themes of UNGA 2026 speeches:
Sovereignty, Climate Change, AI, Human Rights, Palestine🇵🇸, Israel🇮🇱, Ukraine🇺🇦, Terrorism, Sudan🇸🇩, USA🇺🇸.
Now that the UN General Debate (#UNGA81) is finally over, we can readily find out which were the most common issues talked over from the podium: unga81.orosei.ai/speeches
A searchable archive developed by @elizondogabriel
Useful PQ and answer on the 'national conversation campaign on defence and security' that we're supposedly having.
But we repeat - a conversation is not a campaign; it involves listening at least as much as telling. HMG needs to hear from people and understand their (in)security.
Peacebuilding works, is far cheaper than war, and has the public’s support. So why is it so often bypassed for military options?
Teresa Dumasy shares the findings of recent polling on public opinion in Britain about preventing conflict and building peace.
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'Proud', 'Hopeful', 'Happy', 'Safe' and 'Confident' are the words respondents most often used to describe how they felt about the UK helping to prevent conflict overseas.
That's what British people thought about peacebuilding in July 2026.
For why peacebuilding matters and the evidence that it works, please read and share the new Peace Works report from a coalition of brilliant orgs, not least @CRbuildpeace, doing the work.
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New on the Blog:
@LarryAttree argues that Andy Burnham should query received wisdom on national security, and sets out five big shifts that the PM could make to reset UK security strategy in a sustainable direction.
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🚨Our next webinar:
Increasingly, attempts to expose UK complicity in conflicts & to challenge security, foreign & climate policy have been suppressed by new laws & police powers. Why is this happening & who or what is being sidelined in result?
Register: rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/we…